WikiHouse: Open-Source DIY Architecture You Can Build
What if building houses were as easy as downloading and 'printing' CNC-milled wooden components, which can be easily and quickly assembled with no formal skills or training? In the future, it ...
Author: SA Rogers
S.A. Rogers is a veteran print and web author covering architecture, design, art and more. With years of experience writing for WebUrbanist, hers is one of the core voices that defines the site. She has an uncanny knack for discovering and sharing hidden built environments, including abandoned places, world wonders, monumental mysteries and other urban secrets, some of which are hidden in plain sight.Remember Millions of Mobile Phones in the 1960s? You Should
Quick, when was the mobile phone invented? If you thought it was the 1980s, when businessmen lugged them around in giant briefcases, think again. The earliest version of a mobile phone was first ...
Urban Living Room: Feel at Home in Public Places
How can we get more people to leave the comfort of their homes to spend time getting to know their communities and appreciating public urban spaces? Artist Eddy Kaiser and the Theatre Group ...
Writing, Reinvented: 14 Innovative Pen & Pencil Designs
Most of us don't expect our writing instruments to do anything more than write. But after seeing the incredible things that these 14 pen and pencil designs can do, we might just raise our ...
Minimalist Wood Peg Furniture is Easy to Assemble & Store
Living in tight urban spaces requires a certain ingenuity in choosing and arranging furniture, to ensure that it not only fits the space but also the inhabitant's changing needs. There are lots ...
Ruined Renaissance Palace Gets Rusted Steel Addition
A rusted, L-shaped Corten steel volume replaces the missing corner of a crumbling Renaissance palace in the renovation of an ancient site in Pécs, Hungary. The contrast between the historic ...
Dead Media: Art Installation Created with 497 VHS Tapes
What do you do with 497 obsolete VHS tapes? Noah Scalin ripped them apart and made them into a giant three-dimensional skull-shaped art installation entitled 'Dead Media'. The proprietor of ...
San Francisco Past & Present: Blended Images from 1906 and 2012
106 years ago, San Francisco was in ruins. The earthquake of 1906 destroyed over 80% of the city, with 30 fires that broke out as a result burning down 25,000 buildings on 490 city blocks. But ...
Rural Ruins: 20 Eerie Images of Abandonments
In the last century, the human population has become increasingly urban, concentrating in city centers and suburbs. As younger generations leave and small farms are displaced by commercial ...
Futuristic Floating Airport for London Features Underwater Tunnels
London could get a new 21st-century airport that utilizes some of the only space left within the city - the surface of the Thames River. The London branch of the international architecture firm ...
